UE5 Neurology/Neurosurgery Fellow Research Symposium
Event: UE5 Neurology/NeurosurgeryFellow Research Symposium – Thursday, April 30, 2026
Venue: Connor Auditorium, 12-2 p.m.
Keynote speaker

Wayne Yokoyama, MD
Sam J. Levin & Audrey Loew Levin Professor
Director, WashU MSTP
Bishop Lectureship: “Challenging Current Paradigms to Explain Clinical Autoimmunity – The HLA-B27 Story”

Michael Taylor, MD, PhD
Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Chair of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center
Bishop Lectureship: “Recent Homo sapiens Cerebellar Hypertrophy as a Proximal Cause for Medulloblastoma: How understanding the development of hindbrain will allow us to prevent rather than cure medulloblastoma”

Charlotte Sumner, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bishop Lectureship: “Blood neural barriers and motor neuron degeneration”
Event: R25 Neurology Fellow Research Symposium – Friday, May 5, 2023
Venue: Moore Auditorium, 7:45-11 a.m.
Keynote speaker

Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Bishop Lectureship: Assist in Deciding Optimal Therapeutic Interventions For Patients with Neurological Disorders




